The Movie Meme

I’m not a huge fan of memes, but I’ve seen this one on a couple of my favoriteblogs, and it definitely speaks to me. The rules:

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating, please don’t.

Okay, I’ll tell you up front that one of these movies had no quotes listed in IMDb, although the movie itself is listed there. So I picked a quote myself from the movie. In fact, I watched the movie to make sure I got it verbatim.

And I’ll be incredibly impressed if y’all guess them all without Googling because a couple of them are somewhat obscure. But they are among my favorites. Here goes:

1. Be happy in your work MaryO

Wendy adds: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): Be happy in your work. – Colonel Saito, the prison camp commandantA David Lean classic! The head of our agency at work always says “Be happy in your work” at the close of the managers’ meeting and it never fails to crack me up, because I know he’s a classic movie buff and get the reference. No one else ever seems to get it.

Wendy adds: I Know Where I’m Going! (1945): Oh it’s no trouble at all. Besides I haven’t heard any intelligent female nonsense for months. — Catriona PottsAn early Micheal Powell/Emeric Pressberger collaboration. Most of the action takes place in the Outer Hebrides! It stars Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey! What’s not to like??!!

3. It’s awfully easy to lie when you know that you’re trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading. AnnH

Wendy adds:Brief Encounter (1945): It’s awfully easy to lie when you know that you’re trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading. — Laura JessonMy absolute favorite movie of all times. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are perfection. The score, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 sets the mood for this doomed love affair. Piano played by Eileen Joyce.

Wendy adds:
The Uninvited (1944): Important decisions have to be made quickly. — Pamela Fitzgerald
The piece “Stella By Starlight” was composed by Victor Young for this movie. It’s a fabulous ghost story, starring the dreamy Ray Milland

5. It’s money and adventure and fame. It’s the thrill of a lifetime and a long sea voyage that starts at six o’clock tomorrow morning. MaryO

Wendy adds:King Kong (1933): It’s money and adventure and fame. It’s the thrill of a lifetime and a long sea voyage that starts at six o’clock tomorrow morning. — Carl DenhamThe original and best version, one I never get tired of seeing.

Wendy adds: This Happy Breed (1944): She didn’t pass on, pass over, or pass out! She died! — Frank Gibbons Another David Lean classic! Fabulous cast, another movie I never tire of watching.

8. The inspector asked for some chrysanthemums. Could you go out and pick them for him, please?

9. What goes to make a rose, ma’am, is breeding… and budding… and horse-manure, if you’ll pardon the expression. MaryO

Wendy adds:Mrs. Miniver (1942): What goes to make a rose, ma’am, is breeding… and budding… and horse-manure, if you’ll pardon the expression. — Mr. Ballard, the station masterMy favorite World War II film. It may be dated, but I watched it shortly after 911 and cried, because the pastor’s speech at the end of the movie was so incredibly (and heartbreakingly) relevant.

10. I’m proposing marriage, Miss Hansen. Or… should I call it a merger? You know I’m good at mergers. MaryO

Wendy adds:Random Harvest (1942):I’m proposing marriage, Miss Hansen. Or… should I call it a merger? You know I’m good at mergers. — SmithyI’m a sucker for a good love story and this one has it all: War! Amnesia! English countryside! Stars the always fabulous Greer Garson and Ronald Colman.

Have at it, and leave your guesses in the comments.

Because the Anonymous Alana-Sock Lover frightened me half to death with her threats in the comments yesterday, here they are: the Alana Socks.

Wendy,
I have never met a kitty that doesn’t love movies with its Momma! Come on, is there anything better in life than a cold, crisp (Friday/Sat) night, a kitty, a SO, a glass of vino, knitting, and a vintage flick? (If I have neglecgted an item. let me know immediately; also my groupings were in no particular order…)

I love what you are going to do with your Kauni yarn. I am working on a Kauni cardigan right now (my very first foray in to colorwork) and I am loving it. Just as a caution, I did find some knots where the colors changed…

Love your movie selections & quotes….each one fantastic……….would add Out of Africa “if I have known the colors of Africa, will Africa know the colors of me?”………..and Ratatouille “this is not your Mommy’s kitchen!”………….great fun!

Oh my – you’re the only other person I know who likes (or even knows) “I Know Where I’m Going!”. My grandmother used to sing “Nut Brown Maiden” to us in Gaelic when we were children. Thank you for reminding me.

Late to the party, as usual. Great movies! Celia Johnson (love her) was wonderful in both those classics, and the This Happy Breed quote is one of my favourites ever. Oh, and Brief Encounter is one of the movies the ghosts watch in Truly, Madly Deeply.

Is the next-in-line sock yarn Spritely Goods Coffee Pot Rock? Hmmm…maybe a bit too shiny, but the colours are about right.

What, no ‘I’m asking you to marry me, you little fool.’ Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940). I’m not usually a fan of romances, but Rebecca is heaven. You’ve reminded me, I haven’t watched IKWIG for ages; I think I feel a wet Saturday afternoon coming on.

Your list could very well have been MY list…..love each and every one of those movies, particularly “I Know Where I’m Going!” and “Brief Encounter”. Love early David Lean and anything Powell and Pressburger, especially “The Red Shoes”. I could live happily in the world of the past and do so through my love of old movies. It’s hard to find people who truly love these old gems the way I do, most seem to prefer the drivel that Hollywood churns out at an alarming pace. For some odd reason every 6 months or so I am compelled to watch “The Third Man”. I think it’s the zither music!

I didn’t have a clue. Either you have too much free time or I have been living too long in a house full of philistines whose idea of an intellectual flick is “Starship Troopers.” (It almost makes me glad the DVD player is broken.)

Both Lucy and the Alana socks are charming. Is it a trick of the light or does the new sock yarn really look like twine?

well, i would have gotten most of them – and we could be separated at birth with our movie choices… love old movies. just last night saw a charming Hayley Mills and IAN MCSHANE (very young and very gorgeous)… directed by Dad John and written by Mom Mary. quite adorable.

so number 7 – is it one of the Miss Marple movies? that’s all i can come up with.

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